The sky around the steeple was now a black color, and so were the trees. In fact, the moon had a dark-looking face on it to show this area as a dark, evil place. The steeple, unlike before, had also turned a black color, and the ground had become very dark.
Once everybody made their walk out of the woods, they looked up at the Dark Steeple. It sure looked creepy to them, with the stained glass window and the gate blocking the way in. Not to mention there's also a well, but guarding it was a dark ghost. He looked like he had been seen before, in Chopper's eyes, but what remains of him is a scary-looking purple mouth and purple eyes. He happened to notice the four show up as well.
"So this is the Dark Steeple, huh? Wow, it sure looks pretty creepy all right." Chopper commented. "I certainly don't like how it looks anyway. I think it would be better if it was lighter and not all dark."
"It sure has changed ever since that Duplighost left. Too bad there's not much good in here now." Vivian frowned. "It just became the home of someone else, but most likely worse..."
"Uh… Vivian… Do you know anything about your brother?" Chopper asked out of curiosity. "Was he a good person or something? Or was he completely evil?"
"Personally, I really don't know. I remember that he's younger than my sisters, but older than me. I wish I knew more, but I can't. Let's just get the Crystal Star and get out of here. And fast!"
"Good idea!" Scrub walked over to the gate and tried to open it. Sadly, he had no luck in that. "Crud! The door's locked! Who's the jerk who locked the gate anyways?"
Scrub kicked the door in anger, but it didn't seem to work, so he ended up backing away. Kirby, on the other hand, was paying attention to the dark ghost by the well.
"Poyo… (Chopper, look over there. That ghost looks so…creepy…)" Kirby trailed as he looked a little white and stepped back. Scrub tried to be brave, but he ended up stepping away.
"Uhhh... You go over to him." Scrub suggested.
"Uh… Sure, why not?" Chopper shrugged while looking at the ghost, feeling a little nervous while Vivian followed him over to the ghost.. "Why, g-good day to you s-sir…"
"Hey! I remember you!" the ghost remarked. "Err... I mean, if you're going to go down this well, you need to pay me 80 coins! …Unless you think you can take me on, that is!"
"Eh… We don't need to go down that well. I know how to get into the steeple anyway." Chopper turned sideways and then became a tube, with everyone else going into it. They went through the little passage by the gate, ignoring the ghost, who looked eager to fight.
"Awesome! We made it through the gate! Now let's go see what's in this place! I'm not scared!" Scrub grinned as Chopper kicked the door open and found the inside of the place a dark gray color. The upper floor didn't look nice because part of the pathway was kind of destroyed.
Once Vivian got a glimpse at the stained-glass window, she looked shocked. "Chopper! …You may want to look at the window."
"What do you mean?"
"Just look!" Vivian pointed to the stained-glass window, which showed someone who resembled Chopper a bit…but instead he looked darker and had some Tartaras and Darklings behind him.
"Hey… That…looks like me! But… Why am I up there? That's the question." Chopper gasped before he walked over to the end of the big room and saw a statue with a star on it. He noticed there was a little bit of a hole below too.
"Hmmm…" he pushed the statue and he fell into a hole. Everyone followed him down to help him, but they found out that they went below the steeple into an underground room. A door could be seen to the left, so they walked into there to find a room with torches and also window that showed another room.
"Whoa… These torches are a black color! That's spooky…" Scrub commented. "But this purple chest here is what's making me a little confused. Let's check inside of it!"
"Poyo… (And make sure you be careful too, Chopper…)" Kirby added.
"Don't get worried! Opening a chest won't hurt you! Watch!" Chopper assured as he opened the chest. He didn't see anything inside, but many Boos came out of the chest making everyone stand back.
"OHOHOHOHO! HEEHEEHEE! FREEDOM!" the Boos cried as every single one of them flew out. The last one who came out didn't fly away. He looked over at Chopper with a grin.
"A Boo? Hey, maybe they know Bow!" Chopper wondered.
"Bow? Pffffffft! Sorry, but we're not like her and those Boos of her! We do whatever we want!" the Boo snickered. "But, anyway… It's quiz time, interlopers! Just now, when the box opened... How many of us Boos came out? Total!"
Chopper looked at his friends, who shrugged. "Sorry, Contadre, I didn't pay attention.
"Ummm… 200?" the pale green boy shrugged.
"Good… Very good. Take these…math nerd." the Boo dropped an Ultra Shroom, and also a big chest came down in front of him, with the Boo saying, "See you, sucker!" as it flew off, so Chopper took the Ultra Shroom.
"Contadre! Check what's in that chest! It looks like the one in the Great Tree, y'know!" Scrub recalled.
Chopper nodded and walked over to the chest and opened it up…to find some gloves.
You got the Super Gloves!
Like his Super Shoes and Super Hammer, Chopper suddenly found himself teleported to a familiar area. And on arrival came Toadette.
"Hi, Chopper! It's me again!" Toadette greeted happily. "I can't believe you managed to get a hold of the Super Gloves! Now you can use a brand new ability! Why don't we practice it?"
"OK," Chopper nodded, noticing the fiery glow coming from his hands.
"With the Super Gloves, you can shoot a ball of fire that goes a few feet away! If you want to try it out, press the L button to switch between using your hammer or your new elemental hand abilities! Then once you select your hands, press B to shoot a fireball!"
Chopper did as she told and suddenly shot a fireball. It disappeared after a few feet, but he shot another one.
"Yeah... This is familiar to me!" Chopper smiled.
"That was great! No wonder you're so good at it!" Toadette complimented. "With your Super Gloves, you should be able to light up things like torches! Also, you can use your new gloves in battle!"
"Yeah... I plan to do that!"
"Cool! Well, see you around!"
With that, Chopper was taken back to the Dark Steeple. Now that the others could get a look at his flaming gloves, they gawked.
"Poyo! (Whoa! Those gloves! …What's with the flames on them?)" Kirby asked.
"They're gloves that let me use fire now. It's pretty cool!" Chopper remarked.
"You got fire? It looks like we have something in common now!" Vivian smiled, getting the feeling that Chopper won't be harmed as much by fire. "I think your fire gloves will be very helpful!"
"Let's go back up and test 'em on something!" Scrub suggested
Once they went back up to the surface, or rather, the main room of the steeple, they found a lonely Boo. It appeared to be waiting for them this whole time.
"What's that Boo doing here?" Chopper wondered
"I'm so lonely… Are you four going to be mean to me?" the Boo asked.
"Why would we ever be mean to you?"
"Promise?" the Boo asked again, growing bigger.
"YES! WE PROMISE!" Chopper yelled out.
"Great! OK, boys! Come on out! He said he'll be nice to us, so don't worry!"
A ton of Boos appeared and they began to circle Chopper and his friends. Some of them even began to grab them, which made them all scream and squirm to get themselves free.
"Ack! Get off of me!" Chopper began to spin around with his flaming fists and knocked away a couple of Boos. Vivian even used her Fiery Jinx to light them on fire to keep them away.
And that's when they had it.
"Heee... Hooo... Heee! You said you'd be nice! Let's get 'em, boys!" the Boos all began to combine into a larger Boo known as an Atomic Boo. Nothing much was different about it appearance-wise compared to a normal, Boo, but it was much stronger.
Tattle: That's an Atomic Boo. It's a giant Boo made up of a ton of smaller Boos. Max HP is 40, Attack is 4, Defense is 0. This thing will try to smoosh us. It can also split up and send hundreds of Boos at us. And, when he attacks, we might get so scared that we get confused or can't move. I sure wouldn't want to see this thing standing behind me in the middle of the night... Creeeeeepy...
"All right, time to test out my fire!" Chopper tossed a fireball at the Atomic Boo and left a burn on it. With Vivian's Shade Fist, it caused the Atomic Boo to have a longer burn on it.
"So two fire attacks can leave a longer lasting burn..." Vivian trailed as the Atomic Boo shrunk in size as a couple of Boos came out and surrounded Chopper and his friends. They covered their faces at first, but when they revealed them, their big mouths revealed their tongues, which was able to take 4 HP out of them all.
"Poyo! (They just touched us with their tongues!)" Kirby gapped.
"Yeah, I know," Chopper agreed.
"I guess this is what Boos tend to do..." Vivian trailed.
"But we're not letting that stop us!" Scrub growled.
"Meh, why not use a Power Bounce?" Chopper ran over to the Atomic Boo and used a Power Bounce and was able to perform seven stomps to deal 8 damage to the ghost.
"Lemme give this big Boo a good ol' butt stomp!" Scrub declared as he fluttered over to the Atomic Boo and landed a Ground Pound on it. Now the Atomic Boo was left with 19 HP left.
"Poyo, (This fight is a lot easier than I thought it would be,)" Kirby remarked.
The Atomic Boo made a couple of Boos attack them again, and this time Scrub got immobilized because of being scared.
"Aw, come on! Not you, Scrub! Oh, fine!" Chopper saw the Boo take some damage from the burn, so he threw another fireball at the Atomic Boo while smirking.
"It's good to have this again!" he said after landing the fire on the big Boo. The good thing was that the attack could target any enemy. It also could do much more damage against some of the ice enemies.
Afterward, Kirby used his Cartwheel to attack the Atomic Boo as, making the giant Boo use a body slam attack, landing on Kirby. Luckily, he guarded the attack so he didn't take as much damage.
"Poyo (Can we just finish this up quickly?)" Kirby asked. Chopper nodded and used his Power Bounce to stomp on the Atomic Boo four times.
"Go ahead, Vivian! You take care of this Boo!" Chopper suggested as Vivian punched the Atomic Boo, which exploded, giving them 20 Star Points. It even dropped a badge called the Lucky Star badge.
"So this badge gives you good luck? Well you should take it, Chopper!" Vivian suggested.
Chopper took it and then they walked to the wooden door to the south. They were led outside, and while walking on the tiles, they saw a purple bat called a Swooper fly down to attack. From what Chopper could remember, they were capable of sucking away HP.
After leveling up and upgrading Chopper's HP to 30, they went to the end of the tile pathway, which had a red ! Switch. Chopper threw a fireball at it, causing the ground to shake.
"Hey, what do you think that could be? I think it came from the door." Scrub pondered.
Chopper opened the door to see a small room with a stairway being the closest to them. There were three doors, and the one to the south was where the stairway was.
"OK, let's go up those stairs," Chopper went up the stairs and opened the door to be in the upper room of the Dark Steeple. They crossed over a gap with Scrub to get a Steeple Key. From what they could see, they now had to get the stairway to match up with the door on the other side of the main room.
"You know, I think this might take a while," Scrub remarked.
"Well we have to be patient."
Five minutes later-
The staircase was back at the northern part of the room, so they all went there to go to a door that was locked and a Save Block. After hitting the block, they unlocked the door and headed through to find a spiral staircase, as well as a Heart Block.
"I guess this is where the monster must be. Let's go!" Chopper walked up the spiraling staircase to find a spring, and they looked up to see a shining light.
"I guess the top of the Dark Steeple is up here. We better go up there and stop the monster." Vivian declared.
Chopper started by going up the spring, and then everybody else followed as well, hoping to stop the monster responsible for harming the villagers.
I think you might all be surprised who this monster is. Wait, boss chapter already? How could that be? ...Well yeah, this is definitely a short chapter, to be honest. But there's only seven parts of this chapter...except a little shorter.
Oh yeah, the gloves are something new I put in. Why did I do that? I thought it would be cool. That's really it. But, anyway, boss chapter is next!